On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:59:18 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I encrypt my home partition with LUKS and enter a passphrase > during boot. But I always wanted to get decryption upon login running, > especially because it would require me to enter one less password. But > haven’t gotten around to that yet.
Are you the only use of the computer? If so, set your display manager to auto-login, you have already authenticated yourself by unlocking the home partition. > > With one notable exception. There is sometimes sensitive information > > in /etc, like wireless passwords. > > For that reason I put this stuff into /home/etc/$hostname/ (I back up my > machines’ /etc on all other machines, also to have a reference if I need > to know “How did I do this on $other_host?”). And then I symlink to > that from the real location, i.e.: I used to do that, now I have an encrypted /, which contains the keys for any other encrypted volumes, so I still only need to enter one password. -- Neil Bothwick Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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